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... gale and survivors from tor- pedoed ships, takes part in a Norway action, and is sunk in an air attack while evacuating from Dunkirk. So there is plenty of gripping action, with feminine background interest in Tony's W.V.S. mother, his M.O.I, sister,, and ...

Published: Sunday 01 August 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1625 | Page: 64 | Tags: Review 

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... and a family of three brothers, both of which sections are rather isolated. And between whiles there are discussions about Dunkirk. Perhaps I have not made the novel clear but that is the impression it has cast upon me. None the less, I can recommend this ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1942
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1218 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

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... one who wants to know more about the background of M. Dragomir's book. David Rame makes a novel out of the evacuation from Dunkirk. He was present i- himself and in The Sun Shall Greet Them (Collins, 8s.) he writes of the gallant little Continued on ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1116 | Page: 64 | Tags: Review 

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... make the journey Books to Feudal Island you cannot do better than travel mentally under Desmond Holdridge. r-|-lHE Epic of Dunkirk (Hurst and J. Blackett, 10s. 6d.) is another book for every household. E. Keble Chatterton tells, after studying official ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1112 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

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... Tramp (Jarrolds, 12s. 6d.) is an autobiographical account of his life afloat and ashore, from Africa to U.S.A., from China to Dunkirk. No steady job ever appealed to him, he confesses, but he has probably done more hard work as sea- tramp than most shorefolk ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1945
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1207 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

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... dealt with, as are most facets of army fife. Outstanding is the awful state of our unpreparedness both before and after Dunkirk, a state now well remedied by supplies and by training. Despite a tendency to repetition this book is well within the intelligence ...

Published: Monday 01 June 1942
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1396 | Page: 56 | Tags: Review 

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... easily read and digest and the more knowledgeable can study with profit and enjoyment. Like every other journalist he riiissed Dunkirk, but he was at the second getaway of troops from a port and tells a vivid story. Also included are many new first-hand stories ...

Published: Monday 01 March 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1400 | Page: 62 | Tags: Review 

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... each other, but later changes her mind. By that time her husband, Major Collyer invalided out for nervous disability after Dunkirk, and working as a journalist doubts his ability to give her a child, even under treatment from a medical psychiatrist. The ...

Published: Thursday 01 July 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1305 | Page: 70 | Tags: Review 

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... because I have taken an oath not to wear any until I enter Metz at the head of a victorious army, and that our men on the Dunkirk beaches organized motor-bike races, betted on them with bookies, and made sure the bets were settled before leaving A first-rate ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1714 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

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... your best friend, Norah C. James renews the interest with a variety of twists and turns, which include the evacuation from Dunkirk. At one time I thought, overwritten and under- thought but by the end I had revised my opinion for there is merit in the ...

Published: Sunday 01 March 1942
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1695 | Page: 63 | Tags: Review 

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... by Edward F. Meade (Faber and Faber, 8s. 6d.). Concerns the life of a Canadian in England during the four years between Dunkirk and Normandy. Still They Smile, by Peter Conway (Mac donald Co., 8s. 6d.). A novel in which two you c oeople suffered and ...

Published: Sunday 01 September 1946
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1677 | Page: 68 | Tags: Review 

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... homely tale of the country folk Mr. Phill potts knows so well. WHAT is a man to do who is missing, presumed dead, after Dunkirk, and returns from work in the French Resistance to find his wife married to his brother Fade in again, a disrupting ghost ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1947
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1809 | Page: 68 | Tags: Review